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One of the best films of the year gets one of the best trailers of the year. Harnessing an early scene in the film, before breaking into a montage of the celebration of artictectural form, A24s teaser trailer captures the energy and the epic scale of the film in a very succint 76 seconds. The trailer is also a fantastic showcase for the films superb score, and the unusual way it runs its credit sequence. When Bradey Corbet’s The Brutalist comes out in cinemas, be sure to try to get to one of the 70mm Screenings, you will not regret it.  They haven’t made films like this one in quite some time.  No plot synoposis can do this film justice, so simply watch the trailer…

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Elric Kane’s solo feature film debut The Dead Thing will have its US premiere at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and Shudder has announced that they’ve picked up the streaming rights for it.   A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.   Our own Josh caught the premiere of The Dead Thing at Fantasia this Summer. Despite some small criticisms they liked it and finished off their review with this remark.   Sexy, sad, spooky, and distinctly unnerving, The Dead Thing is definitely a film for horror fans who prefer their scares to come with long lead ups and plenty of…

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Some 17 years ago, viewers were both maddened and mesmerized by the tactile fever dream that was M, a cornucopia of sound and motion that is, for the moment, Lee Myung-se’s last feature-length testament to the cinema medium he so adores. Though it doesn’t quite qualify as a full feature return, Lee is back on stage presenting the richly cinematic four-part anthology film The Killers. Lee spearheaded this project as a creative producer and directed its final segment. Also in the formidable directing roster are Kim Jong-kwan (The Table), Roh Deok (Very Ordinary Couple) and Chang Hang-joon (Forgotten). The film essentially features four adaptions of Ernest Hemingway’s famous 1927 short story of the same name, in which two hitmen enter a small town diner one…

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Where to begin on this infamous film? Shot in 1976 and released in 1980, Caligula was directed by arthouse provocateur Tinto Brass. Written by Gore Vidal and funded by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, Caligula became one of those unfortunate films that was messed with by someone who should not have had editing or final cut privileges. But throughout film history, huge egos with money have done exactly that. In the case of Caligula, Guccione went beyond most interfering suits, if you could call him that, and secretly shot pornographic footage on the sets at night. He then had this footage cut into the film, resulting in a wild ride, to say the least. The film stars Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) as the young man…

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